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stewards of the French Jockey Club, to the effect that 

 officers of the French army on full pay could run their 

 horses in three of the races at the meeting ; but as was 

 the case in the previous year the Marquis Talon was 

 the only representative of France, his horse Young 

 Magnet running third, the winner being Captain Hunt's 

 Goldsmith, who, ridden by his owner, carried a 10 lb. 

 penalty. The Hunt Cup is only mentioned because of 

 the fact that Mr. "Edwards" (George Ede) and Mr. 

 "Thomas" (Mr. Pickernell) rode the first and second, 

 the former on Ben Land's Odiham, and the latter on 

 Mr. Pryse's Paymaster. 



The year i860 saw the Grand Military once more at 

 Northampton, where twenty years earlier the first Grand 

 Military meeting was held under the stewardship of 

 Lord Cardigan, General Gilbert, and Col. Quinton, all 

 hard riding men in their day, and the series was only 

 broken by the Sikh war, which in 1846 caused the races 

 to be suspended. The town of Northampton acted very 

 liberally on this occasion, giving ^100 to the chief military 

 race, and another hundred to an open race, while Lord 

 Southampton's Hunt made a valuable contribution. 

 The winner of the Grand Military Gold Cup was 

 Captain's Anderson's (R. D. G.) The Hermit, who, 

 ridden by his owner, won by about ten lengths. 



For some reason or other people appeared to think 

 that the Grand Military Steeplechases should not be run 

 in the shires, and, as was the case with the Grand 

 National Hunt when it was removed from Market 

 Harborough, when, as already mentioned, the soldiers 

 elected to go to Sutton Coldfield, there was an outcry 

 which was renewed in 1861 when the Grand Military 

 was held at Cheltenham, on the day before the Grand 

 National Hunt Steeplechase. The winner of the Gold 

 Cup was the Hon. F. G. Ellis's Inniskilling, ridden by 

 his owner ; the second horse was Captain Tempest's The 



